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La Bataille du Rail [Battle of the Rails] ***** – (1946, Tony Laurent, Jean Daurand, Jean Clarieux, Jacques Desagneaux) Classic Movie Review 12,671
René Clément’s 1946 French war drama film La Bataille du Rail [Battle of the Rails] is a half-documentary, half-fictional account of World War Two resistance among courageous Breton railway workers (cheminots) in the French Resistance. […]
Un Condamné à Mort S’est Échappé [A Man Escaped] ***** (1956, François Leterrier, Charles Le Clainche, Maurice Beerblock) – Classic Movie Review 9554
Director Robert Bresson’s 1956 French film Un Condamné à Mort S’est Échappé ou Le Vent Souffle où il Veut [A Man Escaped] is the brilliantly made, stark, true story of a captured French Resistance fighter, […]
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse * (1962, Glenn Ford, Ingrid Thulin, Charles Boyer) – Classic Movie Review 9301
Director Vincente Minnelli comes a cropper with this stilted 1962 remake of the 1921 Rudolph Valentino silent classic The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The good star cast of Glenn Ford (as Julio Desnoyers), Ingrid […]
The Train **** (1964, Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, Michel Simon, Suzanne Flon, Albert Rémy, Charles Millot) – Classic Movie Review 7,050
The smart and exciting 1964 wartime action thriller The Train stars Burt Lancaster as a French Resistance leader trying to hijack the train-load of French art treasures a fanatical German Colonel (Paul Scofield) is sending […]
Orders to Kill **** (1958, Paul Massie, Irene Worth, James Robertson Justice, Leslie French, Eddie Albert, Lillian Gish, John Crawford, Lionel Jeffries, Sandra Dorne) – Classic Movie Review 6870
The 1958 British thriller Orders to Kill is a powerful and persuasive wartime moral dilemma film. Paul Massie stars as an American agent parachuted into France in World War Two with orders to kill a […]
Manon **** (1949, Cécile Aubry, Michel Auclair, Serge Reggiani) – Classic Movie Review 6654
Director Henri-Georges Clouzot’s impressive and engrossing 1949 film version of Abbé Prévost’s classic novel Manon Lescault is updated to post-World War Two France, and a situation close to his heart, persecution for collaborating with the […]
The Blood of Others [Le Sang des Autres] * (1984, Jodie Foster, Michael Ontkean, Sam Neill, Lambert Wilson, Stéphane Audran) – Classic Movie Review 6267
Director Claude Chabrol’s 1984 World War Two drama, set in German occupied Paris under the horrors of Nazism, is very strongly cast but over-long at 135 minutes and struggling. Brian Moore adapts the novel by […]